A potentially bitter court battle involving two of Ireland’s most senior clerics in a dispute over the release of secret church files was withdrawn today.

Cardinal Desmond Connell had attempted to stop Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin handing over thousands of documents to a state inquiry into clerical child sex abuse.

Full story. So this may not happen:

So many horrendous jokes involving ‘Connell’ and ‘withdraws’, let’s just move along really fucking fast.

Previously: Cardinal Desmond Connell willing to go to jail.

Great news! Desmond Connell is willing to go to jail.

Cardinal Desmond Connell is prepared to go to prison rather than hand over certain documents relating to child abuse, according to the Irish Catholic newspaper.

More: Cardinal ‘prepared to go to prison’ to protect files.

Original jail cell image from alcotraz, owned by KangoTraveller and the Cardinal Connell image is taken from his wikipedia entry.

From Clerical Whispers (which I think is one of the shittest blogs in Ireland) comes news that Pope Benedict XVI takes the problem of exorcism very seriously and is

“setting up exorcism squads to deal with the rampant growth of Satanism.”

Just fuck off already. We have the Pope setting up more exorcism squads, we have the Catholic church in Ireland opposing the lowering of VAT on condoms and we have Cardinal Connell blocking access to important details of clerical sex abuse.

Did you know that at Desmond Connell’s wikipedia entry it points out that he should be referred to as Your Eminence? Eminence is defined as:

A position of great distinction or superiority

A person of high station or great achievements

What a fucking joke.

It’s beyond belief that people are still actually going and listening to these abnormal, close minded fools pontificating on moral issues and remaining attached to an organisation when it has no shred of dignity left and is being exposed daily for the horrendous, evil cult it is.

Roman Catholic priests: Do yourselves a favour and step down from the pulpit and join the human race. Or maybe it should be step up; it’s a matter of history whether you ever had the moral high ground, but you certainly don’t have it now.